Extortion

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2019 CNN - Exclusive: Jeff Bezos to meet with federal prosecutors on extortion and hacking claims
2020 CNN - Michael Avenatti has been found guilty on all counts in Nike extortion trial
2020 The Atlantic - We Can Prevent a Great Depression. It'll Take $10 Trillion. Don't think of that number as "big" or "bold." Just think of it as the appropriate dosage for a once-in-a-century economic affliction.
2023 Reuters - U.S. Energy Dept gets two ransom notices as MOVEit hack claims more victims
Biological warfare extortion
Blackmail
COVID-19 and extortion links
External debt of Haiti
Extortionists
Loan shark
Nuclear blackmail
Online extortion
Phantom debt
Pizzo (mafia)
Premier Bank offered a credit card with a 79.9% interest rate and a $300 limit, an amount cited by Senator Bernie Sanders as an example of "extortion and loan sharking"
Protection racket
Racketeering
Ransom
Ransomware
Revolutionary tax
Sextortion